Ethics Flashcards
What is Ethics?
Ethics is that branch of philosophy that deals with the human faculty of the will
Ethics in a nominal definition
Ethics in Greek is “ethos” which means “custom” or “habit”
What differs ethics to morals and morality?
Ethics denotes the theory of right action and the greater good WHILE morals indicate their practice
Ethics is not limited to specific ____ and defined ________ but encompasses the whole of _________ and _______, person’s philosophy of life or ___________.
Ethics is not limited to specific acts and defined moral codes but encompasses the whole of moral ideals and behaviors, person’s philosophy of life or Weltanschauung.
What are the branches of Ethics?
Descriptive Ethics
Applied Ethics
Meta Ethics
Normative Ethics
Define Meta Ethics
Meta Ethics is concerned with what the “good” is.
What does Meta means?
Meta means “after” or “beyond”
What questions does Meta Ethics addresses?
“What is ‘goodness’?”
“How can we tell what is good from bad?”
What do words ‘good’ ‘bad’ ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ mean?
What is Applied Ethics?
It is more particular concerns of ethics on a specialized field.
It is the philosophical examination from a moral standpoint of a particular issues in private or public life that are matters of moral judgements.
Applied Ethics
Why does Applied Ethics uses philosophical method?
Applied ethics uses philosophical method to identify morally correct course of action in various fields of human life.
Composition of Applied Ethics
B B M P E P
Bio Ethics Business Ethics Military Ethics Political Ethics Environmental Ethics Publication Ethics
What is Bio Ethics?
State an Example
Bio Ethics is more concerned on controversial issues.
Example: Abortion, Euthanasia, Animal Rights, and Commercial
What is Business Ethics?
Business ethics deals with the corporate social responsibility and other issues like insider trading.
Business ethics maintains the balance between what?
Biot ethics maintains the balance between environmental annulment production and economic development.
The ethics that should be followed in conducting war.
Military Ethics
What is Military Ethics?
Military Ethics deals with the production of collateral and the prevention of collateral damage.
What is Political Ethics
These concerns with what political conducts that should be followed by a politician and political participants.
What is descriptive ethics?
Descriptive ethics comes from the search/survey/study that describes the morality of a community.
Descriptive ethics as Comparative Ethics
Comparative Ethics which describes the ethical theories objectives and compares them.
Descriptive ethics studies people’s beliefs about ______ in different ______.
Descriptive ethics studies people’s beliefs about morality in different context.
What is the origin pf the ethical principle?
Divine or Human
Whether moral values are divine truths or simply human activity.
Whether moral judgment are universal or relative, of one kind of many kinds.
Where does descriptive ethics compares the ethical theories objectives
In different cultural settings and different time settings:
What is Normative Ethics?
Normative Ethics deals with the good or the bad, the rightness and wrongness of one’s act or behaviour.
